Following the green light given the same day by the Parliaments of the Belgian French-speaking federated entities to the approval by the Belgian Federal government of the signature of the EU-Canada free-trade agreement (CETA), the door was open for the 28 member states of the EU to give their blessing, before midnight on Friday 28 October, to the signature by the EU of the CETA, by written procedure.
The parliaments of the three federated entities – the Walloon Region, the...